Bubble wrap: one of man’s most useful inventions. From keeping your packages safe on their travels to providing hours of popping entertainment, the plastic sheeting was invented in 1957 by two entrepreneurs attempting to create a 3-D plastic wallpaper. But can bubble wrap protect a human from a 13-foot free fall?

Tonight, Duck Quacks Don’t Echoexplores the physics of bubble wrap. Led by Tom’s hypothesis, the Duck Quacks gang tests whether the pliable plastic can cushion a stuntman’s jump from the height of a first-story window. Can it be done?

According to the amateur mathematicians of Reddit, this feat is in fact possible. The thread concluded that a 15-foot leap would require a tennis court’s worth of bubble wrap to protect the jumper. Wired also tackled the math problem, concluding that a stuntman would need to be wrapped in 39 layers of bubble wrap to cushion a six-story fall.

Duck Quacks Don’t Echo brings science experiments to life with crazy reenactments and hair-raising stunts. So how much bubble wrap will protect the crew’s stuntman? Find out tonight on an all-new episode at 10P.

Comments

ryan

Arizona

February 13, 2014, 10:37 pm

I think the show needs a name change to do things that have been seen on tv before the pain thing has been bone done before and yelling does make the pain more tolerable and here is one you can do next time yelling dose increase your strength fore lifting punching

Brad

Oklahoma

February 11, 10:17 pm

So, where is the episode. The introduction is posted, but not the presentation.